Re: Re. third-party dependencies [was Re: Stock Quotes using AppleScript]
Re: Re. third-party dependencies [was Re: Stock Quotes using AppleScript]
- Subject: Re: Re. third-party dependencies [was Re: Stock Quotes using AppleScript]
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:29:00 -0400
Plus, I'm pretty sure Jon was making a joke, playing on the fact that
other people sometimes confuse Austria and Australia. I'dexpect at
least most of the folks on this list to know the difference, but
certainly the Europeans like Yvan do. It's mostly us dumb Americans
that make that sort of mistake.
On 3/17/09, KOENIG Yvan <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Le 17 mars 2009 à 12:38, Mike Kostersitz a écrit :
>
>> I'm usually just a lurker in the forums but this sparked my
>> interest LOL
>>
>> Fortunately the Australians use no umlauts and Accents but the
>> Austrians do.
>>
>> Darn when are you guys ramping up on your geography lessons :-)
>>
>> Mike from Austria (Lots of Mountains and no Kangaroos)
>>
>>
>
> Hello
>
> As I received this message as a personal one, I tried to respond the
> same but my message was rejected as:
>
> host 216195434.mail.exchangelabs.com[65.54.247.8] said:
> 550 SC-002 Mail rejected by Windows Live Hotmail for policy
> reasons. The
> mail server IP connecting to Windows Live Hotmail has exhibited
> namespace
> mining behavior.
>
> So I post it here.
>
> Hello Mike,
>
> (a) why are you sending this message to myself ?
>
> I'm not the one which made the error. It's Jon Pugh in its message :
>
>
> De : email@hidden
> Objet : Rép : Re. third-party dependencies [was Re: Stock Quotes
> using AppleScript]
> Date : 16 mars 2009 15:24:53 HNEC
> À : email@hidden
>
> At 5:40 PM +1100 3/16/09, Shane Stanley wrote:
>
> This is precisely why I wrote and use my SmartString class.
>
>
> I'm hanging out for the Unicode-aware case changers. Although now I see
> someone is stealing your terminology for them...
>
>
> Yeah, those extensive Australian umlauts and accents would require
> that. ;)
>
> OK, this spurred me to some action. I'll look for the algorithm to
> upper and lower unicode properly and incorporate it. I've already
> removed the old ASCII scripting addition calls in lieu of "id of
> character" and "character id" and it does indeed fail the upper and
> lower process with accented characters.
>
> Of course, proper unicode case changing is quite simply, HARD.
> Looking into it, the case mapping file is over a megabyte and there
> are numerous rules which need to be implemented.
>
> Jon
> ___
>
> (b) when you send a message to someone, it's unfair to set your
> account so that the recipient can't respond.
>
> Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE mardi 17 mars 2009 13:54:38)
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